Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-07-31
NEW. Notes.
The real estate sales yesterday a,

:. News Notes.
The real estate sales yesterday ag-
gregsted 81, ,lS3,4l7.
~ Professor Bartholomew has pur-
chased two lots ON Fair Oak street,
Pasadena, and intends to build imme-
diately.
j. b. Sanchez returned last evening
from Ensenada. Mr.. Sanchez repre-
SCENTS the International Land Company
,of Mexico in this city.
The examination of A. Mcqueen,
the alleged train robber captured
down the coast, has been set at 10
O'Clock on Thursday morning.
d A Chinaman found bay horse at
tached to buggy on San Pedro
street last night and took them to the
police station, where they await an
owner.
A coal-oil stove at No. As San Pedro
street exploded yesterday morning
shortly before 10 o'clock, and de-
stroyed about 800 worth of furniture
before it was extinguished.
An entertainment by the "Book and
Club" Society Of Alhambra will be
given tomorrow evening at DIR. Kel-
logg's parlors for the benefit of the
new public library at that place.
At Santa Ana, H. X. Snow has sold
his ten acres OF vineyard for $4375;
Mr.. Sneetzer ten acres for $500, and
ID. w. Holiday ten acres at $1S 900.
These parcels will be subdivided.
James McCann, who burglarized
Mrs. Benson's house on Commercial
street ON the 4th of July, was held to
$1,000 bail yesterday by Justice Taney.
The new post of the G. A. r. will
he Instituted on Wednesday next, at
Z 80 p. M, at Grand Army Hall, on
Main street. The membership COM
prises many Of our leading business
men.
A meeting of the G. A. r. delegates
from all the Posts in Southern Cali
fornia will be held in this city on
Tuesday next at IL O'Clock A. M. in
Grand Army Hall, Mcdonald Block,
Main street.
The location of the Downey City
depot for the Pasadena and Long
Beach railway was made yesterday.
1t is about one fourth of mile east of
the present depot OF the S. P. Com
pany at Downey.
A man named Evans engaged in a
battle with another man named Craig
last night on Alameda street, during
which the latter beat the former rather
severely. Officer Little arrested Craig
and charged him with assault and
battery.
Ex-Governor Geo. c. Perkins on
Thursday visited Ballona Harbor and
was much pleased with the remarkable
progress of the great work. He is
convinced that safe harbor can be
made there by the expenditure of a
reasonable amount of capital.
The Rosamond Land and Water
Company held meeting yesterday
and levied an assessment of $1,000 for
extending the present ditch, and a lso
resolved to levy an assessment of
$1,000 in September for the making of
storage reservoirs for summer irriga-
lion.
Conductor James De Force, of the
s. P. Overland, last night received a
dispatch announcing that his venerable
father at Modesto, now eighty-one
years of age, was on his death bed.
Mr.. De Force started for Modesto by
the z: 80 evening train.
Through the kindness of Manager
Wyatt, Prof. Bartholomew and Jay
Rial about sixty orphans of the Or
phans' Home witnessed the educated
horses perform on Friday afternoon,
and yesterday l03 children from the
Catholic Orphan Asylum were given
seats at the matinee.
Sheriff Rays received a telegram
yesterday afternoon stating that ex-
Sheriff Oglesby, who was arrested
here ON various charges of embezzle-
ment committed during his term of
office as Sheriff of Maverick county,
Texas, had got safely to Eagle Pass.
He was met by his bondsmen and
promptly released on bail.
Mrs. Mary III. Banning yesterday
filed an answer to the application OF
William, Hancock and ]. B. Banning
for a partition of the large ranch near
Newport, which was the property OF
the late General p Banning. In her
answer Mrs. Banning asks that the
applicants be required to show the
grounds of their claim to an interest
in the estate.
Yesterday morning Judge O'Melv-
ency sentenced Captain Thornton to
pay fine of $l25, and B. A. Stephens
to pay fine of $50. The charge
against these defendants was criminal
libel, of which jury found them
guilty some weeks ago. An appeal
from the order denying the motion for
a new trial has been taken to the
Supreme Court.
The entries for the fall races of the
Sixth District Agricultural Association
will close tomorrow, August LIST. The
entries 80 far have been from wide
spread parts Of the country, embrac-
ing horses from Kansas City, Mis-
sonri; Montana, Utah, and, besides
these interior localities, all the promi-
nent stables on the Pacific coast. The
fall races will be the most prominent
that have ever taken place in Los An
geles. Remember that tomorrow is
the last day for entries.